Utilizing versatile transmission waveforms to mitigate pulse-compression range sidelobes with the hiwrap radar

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1365-1368

  McLinden, Matthew L ^a   Carswell, James ^b   Li, Lihua ^a   Heymsfield, Gerald ^a   Emory, Amber ^a   Cervantes, Jaime I ^a   Tian, Lin ^c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b Incorporated   (United States)

^c MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Pulse compression methods; pulse compression radar; radar; remote sensing.

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; FREQUENCY DIVERSITY; IMAGING WIND AND RAIN AIRBORNE PROFILERS; INSTRUMENT INCUBATOR PROGRAMS; LINEAR FREQUENCY MODULATION; NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER; PULSE-COMPRESSION METHODS; RANGE RESOLUTION;

DIGITAL DEVICES; DOPPLER RADAR; NASA; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING;

DATA COMPRESSION;

EID: 84886588788     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2013.2241729     Document Type: Article

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